Babel wrote a book review on his website the other day, which made me start thinking about the Battle of Waterloo. The Battle of Waterloo for me is representative of the complete and utter failure of the British education system, because I managed to complete my entire schooling without ever having heard of it. Having later discovered that it was really rather important as battles go, I can only see this as a massive failure on the part of the person who designed the National Curriculum for history. (more…)